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In "Interview with President Lincoln," Charles Farrar Browne uses a different spelling for some common words to indicate the narrator's accent and local dialect. Write the correct spellings of the underlined words in this excerpt.

One (patrit) from a small town in (Michygan) went up on top the house, got into the chimney and slid into the (parler) where Old Abe was (endeverin) to keep the hungry pack of orifice-seekers from (chawin) him up alive without benefit of clergy.


patrit =

Michygan =

parler =

endeverin =

chawin =

Answer 1

patrit = patriot

• Michygan = Michigan
• parler =parlour
• endeverin = endeavouring
• chawin = chewing

The writer has used these spellings as part of colloquialism. Colloquialism means using spellings or expressions to make a piece of text as authentic as possible. Such words provide information about the characters' ethnicity, area of residence and time period. Well-known authors like Mark Twain have also used such spelling and expressions in their writings, adding a distinct flavour to their writing.  

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